http://whijo.net/taxonomy/term/105/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://whijo.net/blog/brad/2007/10/09/media-freedom-sa.html <p><a href="http://vincentmaher.com/mit">Vincent pointed out</a> an interesting post <a href="http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/kanthanpillay/2007/10/06/the-beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves/">about tabloid journalism</a> by Yfm's current CEO Kanthan Pillay. While I had a urination yesterday in one of ablution facilities in the African Media Matrix I noticed a fantastic quote (the bathrooms are littered with quotes and pretty pictures, in fact, by the CSHons rating scale I would give them an 8/10, they lose out because the hand driers are dismal). The quote looks like this (you can also scroll over the image, or click to make it big):</p> <p><span class="inline"><a href="http://whijo.net/files/media_freedom.jpg" class="inline-image-link" title="View: Photo of a bathroom tile featuring a quote from Professor Francis Kasoma, c. 1997, taken in the African Media Matrix, Rhodes University, South Africa." rel="lightbox[gp_inline]"><img src="http://whijo.net/files/imagecache/inline_resize/files/media_freedom.jpg" alt="Photo of a bathroom tile featuring a quote from Professor Francis Kasoma, c. 1997, taken in the African Media Matrix, Rhodes University, South Africa." title="Photo of a bathroom tile featuring a quote from Professor Francis Kasoma, c. 1997, taken in the African Media Matrix, Rhodes University, South Africa." class="inline" /></a></span></p> <p>It is a quote from Professor Francis Kasoma (a media academic) from 1997:</p> <blockquote><p>"<strong>Even the little</strong> freedom of the press which many independent newspapers are <em>enjoying may be</em> drastically curtailed if they continue to flout the basic <em>ethics of</em> journalism. <strong>When this</strong> happens the <em>irresponsible independent</em> press will be as much to blame as the governments <strong>taking the draconian</strong> measures"</p> </p></blockquote> http://whijo.net/blog/brad/2007/10/09/media-freedom-sa.html#comments journalism kanthan pillay media freedom news tabloid Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:20:02 +0200 brad 405 at http://whijo.net